Make and move
Manufacturing
Production planning, costing and shop floor data.
The ERP holds the finished goods and the factory holds everything else. Most of what goes wrong in manufacturing systems lives in that gap, and it shows up as a number nobody can defend at month end.
What usually breaks
Four things, in most plants we walk into
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MRP that is wrong on the day it runs
Production planning lives in spreadsheets while the ERP holds only finished goods, so MRP output is wrong the day it is produced.
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Margin you cannot trust
Costing rules differ plant by plant, so group level margin by product cannot be trusted.
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A shop floor the system cannot see
Shop floor and machine data never reaches the ERP. Scrap and downtime get reconciled by hand at month end.
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Traceability on paper
Batch and lot traceability handled on paper, which slows recalls and fails audits.
The factory knows. The system does not.
How we work
Discovery, design, build, run
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Discovery
We look at what you actually have, and what has to still be true afterwards. There is no meter running on discussion time here. You get as many sessions as it takes to understand what is being built and why.
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Design
Written down before anything is built. Scope, the shape of the solution, and the things we have agreed not to do.
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Build
In the open, against real data, in increments you can look at. Nothing arrives as a surprise at the end.
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Run
Live, then supported. Monitored, maintained, and extended as the business changes.
Engagement
How this gets bought
Four ways
Fixed price, time and materials, retainer, or managed service. There is no minimum engagement size, so a single integration is a real conversation and not a rounding error.
What you are paying for
Senior people on the actual work, not a pyramid with one architect and fifteen juniors. Large firms charge a premium that has more to do with their overhead than with the quality of the delivery. The same work can be done properly for less, and that is the reason this company exists.